... only meters away from the public, and their take-off run isn’t much more distant. It is actually so close that visitors can clearly feel the strong power of those mighty piston engines agitating thei ...
... Hawker Fury, the last real piston fighter, was flown. The Fury was the Royal Navy’s last piston fighter and still saw operational use during the Suez Crisis, when the first jets were also already operational. ...
... f the remaining Spitfires began.
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This started a continuos flow of piston engine-only flying displays, usually commencing with a formation fly-by before starting individual displa ...
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More piston power from this era was presented by a Mustang, Spitfire, Sea Fury and the Red Bull P-38 Lightning:
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... Miles Magister and the Percival Piston Provost.
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The planned Vampire T11 had to be cancelled due to an engine change, but wa ...
Duxford – Flying Legends airshow. Once you have been there once it is quite difficult not to come back, as this show offers a real blast of piston engine powered aircraft. No jets, no noise, just pure ...
... at really showed off what can be done with a piston-powered aircraft of that size. Tight turns, low fly-bys – if only the sun would have been out a bit more often for some nice photos…
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... of course impossible for me to mention all of them, but what I am still remembering is the DHC 1Chipmunk in elegant Lufthansa colours, the strange sound of the piston engine powered Sikorsky S-58 helicopter ...
... e crowd. Than for the next three hours there an uninterrupted sound of piston engines was in the air. If you were standing at the right place along the crowdline the take-offs passed directly over you a ...
The sound of piston engines filled the air at Coventry Airfield, Warwickshire, UK, the week-end of the 31st May, 1st June. It was one of the few rare airshows that give the possibility to see the beautiful ...
